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BENEFICIAL HARMFUL

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The "Real Clear Politics" of Climate Denial

Background Information
This is a screenshot of a website, "Real Clear Politics," a news aggregation website that claims to be a trusted, non-partisan, convener in a content-rich media environment.
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This is propaganda because
To claim that global warming is propaganda is truly harmful because of its profound disrespect of the giant mass of scientific evidence from researchers around the globe.

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    Christine Gilbert
    Mon, 10/03/2016 - 02:46
    Christine Gilbert
    I CANNOT stand for this. Absolutely harmful propaganda that has allowed people to believe that climate change is made up. The science has been replicated and has been published in the most stringent journals in the world: please wake up!
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    CTaylor
    Thu, 10/06/2016 - 08:19
    CTaylor
    HARMFUL. Perpetuates Anti-science, anti-intellectualism for political gain.
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    Zach Nowicki
    Tue, 06/06/2017 - 21:02
    Zach Nowicki
    This comic is harmful because it is propaganda targeting people for being Nazis
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    Ke Yongming
    Fri, 07/14/2017 - 07:27
    Ke Yongming
    Is there a way to separate opinion pieces that are represented in all major media outlets from focused propagandistic messages? We may disagree with George Will's opinion (or that of a variety of commentators on any number of topics), but it degrades the analytical usefulness of the term "propaganda" to lump all opinion pieces disseminated through mass media as propaganda.
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    G Paul
    Sun, 11/12/2017 - 01:40
    G Paul
    Mr Will has a point. I decided to view the clip from the website because I was a little confused over how the term "propaganda" was being used. I wasn't sure if he meant that the opponents of the global warming issues and their propaganda about it not issue not existing or that the proponents of global warming were talking to the crowd and no one was listening. It is the latter. To his point, nothing has really changed the American citizen's behavior save for a handful of "tree-huggers" (term used loosely). We still purchase SUV's, many of us commute to work without the advantages of carpooling, and we still continue to use fossil fuels in many things we do and many products we use. So I rated this a somewhat beneficial because it brings to light how little affect the message of global warming is getting lost in the rhetoric.

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